Amy, call Dr. Jefferson and get me an appointment for Thursday or Friday early morning.

Vivian, I found an injured cat and we'd like to get it fixed.

Fixed meaning spade, but I suppose also meaning repaired.

So if Dr. Jefferson can repair and spade our new cat.

Also pick up a square fabric about 30 by 30 centimeters, something orange, preferably patterned,

an argyle or stencil with print, as well as some dark thread, maroon or violet.

Once you do that fold the square into a bandana and embroider the name constants onto the back part of the bandana.

We named the cat constants.

Also Amy, can you print that name in script in cursive where each letter elegantly sweeps into the next?

Don't fret if you can't do that, just do it in print, I guess.

Thanks.

Letter from the office of Michael Whitten on 13 August 1953 to Ursula Lindholm, Director of Communications Department of Global Trade European Office.

Dear Director Lindholm, thank you for your reply to my question about personnel restructuring.

Your concerns about my poking around are valid but rest assured that this is not an inquisition or a judgment simply curiosity.

Amy, don't write poking around, say inquiries.

Always mean what you say, but rarely say what you mean.

It is a brave, new and unincorporated world out there and we're all doing our best to set about a new, less destructive course

while implementing an entirely novel set of rules.

If you and your office are finding success in reorganization, I certainly want to know about it.

We are not business, Director Lindholm, we are government.

We are a truism, a monolith, many roots of the same tree.

This is not competition, but collaboration.

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